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ad by the Coalition for True Peace in
the Middle
East — a
previously
unknown
group with
no mailing
address —
with a crude,
derogatory
caricature of
Messrs.
Arafat and
Clinton,
unshaven
Jess Hordes: 'Ad was
and wearing
ugly and unfair"
a duplicate
of Arafat's
headdress.
"Two of a kind: Yassir and Bill,"
the caption read.
Jewish leaders were quick to label
the ad blatant racism.
"It's hard to find the adjectives to
comment on something this ugly and
unfair," said Jess Hordes, Washington
director of the Anti- Defamation
League.
At a briefing sponsored by the
Presidents Conference and a reception
by the Israeli Embassy, the prime min-
ister was received politely — but with
significantly less enthusiasm than at
the Evangelical gathering.
But there was also an undercurrent
of anger — in part a function of the
fact that attendees at the embassy
event who had expected a "reception"
were herded into a crowded room for
what amounted to an abbreviated
news conference.
"They didn't give us a reception, we
were the reception," said Jonathan
Kessler, executive editor of Middle
East Insight and a longtime pro-Israel
activist.
Netanyahu was scheduled for a
round of high-level meetings on
Capitol Hill on Wednesday, with a
strong emphasis on the conservative
side of the political balance sheet.
The death of Israeli Education
Minister Zevulun Hammer on
Tuesday forced the cancellation of a
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Reeling From Arafat Backlash

Since its opening in 1993, the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum has
tried to position itself as a respected

national institution, not an instrument
of Jewish politics.
But last week, it became ensnared
in just what it hoped to avoid when
its top lay and professional leaders
spurned an administration request for
an official welcome for Arafat during
his trip to Washington.
At press time, museum officials
were in the process of changing
course; the museum had extended an
invitation to Arafat, and was awaiting
his response.
Despite the apparent reversal, the
controversy damaged the museum's
credibility and may bring simmering
disagreements over its leadership to a
fast boil, according to several sources.
The controversy was ignited late
last week when Aaron Miller, deputy
to special U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis
Ross, called Miles Lerman, chairman
of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council, and suggested the visit,
which administration officials hoped
would send an important message
about forward movement in the peace
process in a week when deadlock and
controversy were expected to predomi- 1
nate.
In an interview, Lerman said he
and museum director Walter Reich
agreed — but that Reich, after several
calls, changed his mind.
Lerman, fearful of embroiling the
museum in a messy political contro-
versy centering on the unpopular
Arafat, agreed to turn down the
administration request.
"We both believe that the institu-
tion has to be protected from political
involvement," he said. "When you
bring politics in, you lose your credi-
bility."
But the story was leaked to the
Washington Post, and suddenly the
museum found itself in the middle of
an international controversy, which
was heightened when directors of sev-
eral leading Holocaust museums in
Israel criticized the decision and
announced their own invitations to
the Palestinian leader.
Some Holocaust board members
were furious.
"I was not consulted, and when I
found out, it was a big shock," said
Ruth B. Mandel, vice chairman of the
council's executive committee and a
professor of political science at Rutgers
University. "Both the decision-making
process and the decision itself were
problems for me."
Critics pointed out that the muse-
um has often welcomed controversial
figures with an eye toward educating

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